Rapid rowers from Yarm School Boat Club attended the inaugural National Junior Scullers Head.

The non-tidal 3500m course, which takes in the Henley Royal Regatta, replaces the original 4? mile tidal Schools Head course.

The Senior Boys crew of Chris Boddy, Ben Rowe, John Preston and Alex Leigh were entered into the main event of junior coxless quads and provided the result of the day with a bronze medal out of 34 entrants. This is the highest position that the school have achieved in this event.

The highest placed crew of the day were the second boat of Edward Mills, Mark Bowers, Robert McDougall and Chris Melton who gained a second place out of seven entrants in the 2nd Quads event.

Other results were promising as Yarm entered crews in the younger age groups. The boys J15 quad came ninth out of 24, and the girls J15 crew came 20th in a strong field of 32.

There were also encouraging results for the large numbers of J14 boys who have only been rowing since January of this year.

Having been entered into two different categories to ensure that the squad of 14 all got a race, the inexperienced and experienced were mixed up before achieving a very creditable 22nd out of 43 entrants in the Octuple sculls, and a 13th out of 29 entrants in the coxed quads.